Desk for hotel-registers.



m. 675,443. MM, June 4, IBM.

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DESK FOR HOTEL REGISTERS.

(Application filed Oct. 5, 1900.)

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No. 675,443. Patented lune 4', IBM. H. HATBH.

DESK FUR HOTEL REGISTERS.

(Application filed Oct. 5, 1900.}

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARDIN HATCH, OF DES MOINES, IOlVA.

DESK FOR HOTEL-REGISTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters lPatent No. 675,443, dated June4%, 1901.

Application filed October 5, 1900. Serial No. 82,124. (No model.)

To (all whont it may concern:

Be it known that l, HARDIN HATCH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Des Moines, in the county of Folk and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Desks for HotelRegisters, ofwhich the fol lowing is a specification.

My invention is an improvementrelating to the advertisingdesk forhotel-registers for which Patent No. 652,225 was granted to me June 19,1900; and it consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof a pen-rack, a receptacle for an ink-well, and a plurality of pocketsfor articles of stationery, with a movable skeleton metal frame, ashereinaftersetforth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view of the skeletonframe and my improvement attached thereto as required for practical use.Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the dotted line a; a; in Fig. l and showsthe top surface of the pen-rack practically level. Fig. 3 is amodification of Fig. 1 and shows the top surface concave. Fig. 4 showsthe rear end of the pen-rack elevated and the top inclined forward anddownward. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 and showsthe manner of detachably fastening the attachment to the rear face ofthe skeleton frame as requiredfor practical use. Fig. 6 is a perspectiveview of the invention adapted to be attached to a desk; and Fig. 7 is asectional View of a desk, showing myimprovement applied as required forpractical use.

The letter A designates the flat wooden bottom of the book-support ofthe desk, connected with a turn-table (that is not shown) by means of ascrew Z) and washer c. A block H, that has an inclined top face adaptedfor placing an advertising-card thereon and the edges at its bottomrabbeted to reduce weight, is fixed on top of the rear end portion ofthe wooden bottom A. Blocks H and 11 that taper from end to end toproduce inclined faces for the reception of advertising-cards, are fixedon top of the bottom A at its edge portions to extend from the rearportion to the front edge, as shown in Fig. 2. Bookrests J, havinginclined top faces, are fixed across the top face of the bottom A, asrequired to support a hotel-register in an inelined position.

K and l are the parallel parts of the main portion of the three-sidedskeleton frame, and L and L are mating right-angled parallel extensionsfrom the ends of the main portion. These extensions are also composed ofmating sides connected at their inner ends with the part I and at theirouter ends by cross-pieces L The parallel outsides of the ends of thecomplete frame taper downward from the rear edge to the front cross'barsL.

At the corners of the frame are deep pockets L", adapted for placingmail-matter, &c., therein.

M and M are the parallel sides of an auxiliary frame, adapted to befixed to the rear face of the part K of the main frame by means ofscrews. They are rigidly connected by an integral bottom N and inclinedends N a plurality of transverse partitions R, that divide the spacebetween them to produce pockets of different length adaptedto retainletter-paper, envelope, and other articles. At one end portion of theauxiliary frame the partitions are provided with a plurality of concavesin their top surfaces to adapt them to serve as a pena-ack.

At the central portion of the auxiliary frame is an integral ink-well Sor receptacle adapted for retaining an ink-well securely.

It is obvious that the pockets for stationery, the pen-rack, and theink-Well cons tructed and applied to the main skeleton frame will begreatly advantageous to a hotel-clerk and guests who have accessthereto.

Having thus described my invention and its purposes, the practicalutility thereof will be readily understood by persons familiar with theart to which it pertains, and what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-- The skeleton frame consisting of two parallelsides, an integral bottom at one end portion of the parallel sides,inclined vertical ends at the parallel sides, transverse partitionsintegral with the parallel sides and the bottom and transverse verticalpartitions integral with the parallel sides and provided with concavesin their top edges to adapt them to serve as pen-racks, as shown and described for the purposes stated.

I-IARDIN HATCH.

X'Vitnesses:

REUBEN G. ORWIG, THOMAS G. ORWIG.

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